I am in Brasov, Romania right now, and will be heading   on to Bucarest later this evening.  Budapest is a nice city, but nothing paticularly different then southern German style.  I went caving while there in the mountains  west of the city.  It was by far the  best thing I have done so far on my traveling.  Traveling alone is not as bad as most would thinkg.  You meet people in the hostels that you do stuff with.  While caving I meet a  Scottish girl traveling by herself, and we spend several evenings together for dinner or bars with other people.  I am hoping to find someone in Bucarest to do stuff with as well.  Hope everzone is doing ok.   I will write more         detailed adventures when i get back.